- Description
- A fan of cars—and drawing them—since childhood, and a reader of Road & Track and Motor Trend since my teenage years. After studying at the CalArts Film School, I worked in TV commercial production in the 1990s and independent filmmaking in the 2000s and beyond. I’ve been an author at Curbside Classic since 2022 and Managing Editor since 2023, where my lifelong interests in cars, art, and visual storytelling happily come together.
![Text by Patrick Bell. It is time for another round of convertibles, this time from the sixties. These will bring back memories for some, and all of us can choose […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/b1d25fcea88b8f0344f011a782b132cf.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Convertibles In The 1960s – Cars To Enjoy The Outdoors, Sixties Style")
![Here’s a find I had been hoping to come across for a while: a 1953 Ford Ranch Wagon, which I had previously seen listed on the local FB Marketplace. A […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_20250227_163305_PORTRAIT.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1953 Ford Ranch Wagon – A Survivor From The 2-Door Wagon’s Peak Era")
![Text by Patrick Bell. I am a car watcher first, but I am a people watcher as well. It has always been fun to connect cars to their people and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/605c0253918603fa816dfb8ecfb476bd.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Fashions And Cars Of The ’60s & ’70s")
![I’ve been a long time fan of the classy Chrysler-Ghia Falcon show car of 1955, perhaps my favorite of the “Idea Car” concepts built during the Exner-Ghia collaboration years. And […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-15-15.39.05.jpg "Vintage Photo: 1955 Chrysler-Ghia Falcon, In Venezuela")
![It’s the summer and vintage cars are showing up in healthy numbers at the CC Cohort; out in regular outings, or at car shows. Of the many, this ’72 Buick […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-14-23.03.42.jpg "1972 Buick GS Sports Coupe; And Other Recent Classic Finds From The CC Cohort")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Vans and van life is our subject today, with a good variety of images to view. These were all over the place back in the day, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-03-03-19.32.11.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Vans, Their People And Lifestyles In The ’60s & ’70s")
![About two years ago, I came across a fairly well kept early second generation Civic near our theater rehearsal studio in San Salvador. If anything, these Hondas, along with vehicles […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_20221031_154507879.jpg "Curbside Finds: Honda Civics From The ’80s Around Town")
![Photos from the CC Cohort by Hyperpack. I won’t deny that I have a fascination of sorts with the wild and outlandish vehicles of the Chrysler corporation created from 1957 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/54571083069_0e1b8a4e22_k.jpg "1961 Plymouth Suburban Wagon With Golden Commando – Outlandish And Rare Family Muscle")
![Here’s a time warp traveling object, a 1987 Ford Taurus wagon in what seems almost showroom condition. Oh, fame, fickle fame… The once ubiquitous Taurus, among the best-selling models in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-09-23.37.18.jpg "1987 Ford Taurus GL Wagon – Nicest Taurus Wagon Still Around?")
![It’s officially summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and I guess it’s only natural the old classics start showing up on a regular basis by the curbside. Either that, or we […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-06-29-22.18.38.jpg "Curbside Find: 1954 Chevrolet Pickup – Out For The Summer")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Fast food restaurants certainly hold a big part of American history in the second half of the twentieth century. Today we have a good selection to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-06-17.23.32.jpg "Vintage Photos: Cars And Fast Food Places, In The ’50s, ’60s & ’70s")
![The Mustang’s arrival was an era defining event; so much so that over half a century later, we are still talking about those early models on a regular basis. Even […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cb264bcce90927d672deba84cb650133.jpg "Vintage Dealer Photos: ’65-’66 Mustangs – At Deliveries, Displays And Showrooms")
